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Mark Pope isn’t Dan Hurley, Scott Drew, or Billy Donovan. He wasn’t Mitch Barnhart’s first choice in the search, nor was he mine, and I assume he wasn’t yours. The instant reaction to the news late Thursday night mainly was disbelief, with a majority of the fans online expressing frustration in how Kentucky’s athletics director, Mitch Barnhart, went from offering the hottest name in the sport a stupid amount of money in the morning to hiring Pope, a former player with zero NCAA Tournament wins, that night. Barnhart’s choice was, and still is, fairly criticized. He was tasked with replacing a H…

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